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Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup

9 points by Capira 3 hours ago | 9 comments

Redster 36 minutes ago

If you like Snapdrop, you'll love croc!

I used Snapdrop before they got bought and found it pretty reliable. It sometimes would not transfer and I went exploring.

I used magic-wormhole-based Warp and liked it, but now I use croc of getcroc.com for almost everything. Whether it's sending files to myself or others, it's just the most flexible and seems to be reliable and fast from my use.

(I haven't been using it super long, but I heartily recommend.)

canadiantim 35 minutes ago

What about something like Iroh?

Redster 16 minutes ago

I've never used Iroh; can you use it with no setup or without an account? I send/receive files often enough from non-technical people, having a no-install/accountless solution for sending files is essential. For my use-case, my go to is croc or Bitwarden Send (I'm on a paid acct), depending on the person.

Update: I see that there are many ways to do this accountless. For some reason the search result was iroh.computer and I made some assumptions. There are definitely some iroh-based options that look like they would have essentially the same UX that I'm going for. Would love to hear if there's some specific pros or cons to croc or iroh.

smusamashah 52 minutes ago

But SnapDrop was sold to LimeWire from what I remember, wasn't it? I have it on my (somewhat popular) list https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/fd6e275e44009b72f64d0570...

Edit: so that was SnapDrop.net this is so confusing now. Are you the author of that GitHub repo?

ranger_danger 16 minutes ago

There is a fork of it here: https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop

inexcf 8 minutes ago

Why does this look exactly like https://pairdrop.net/ ?

saadn92 40 minutes ago

I've had this need recently and noticed that tailscale is extremely useful between phone to mac transfers as well. I mean you can also technically use airdrop too, but that sometimes is unreliable for me.

mathfailure 37 minutes ago

File transfers do not work. Even after allowing microphone access on both ends.

lolc 2 hours ago

This can be very useful.

Indeed my Android phone sees my Linux PC. And the PC can send a file to the phone. At first the file transfer to the PC didn't work and the icons just twitched. After 5 minutes it works now strangely enough.